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Free Download The Convoy: HG-76: Taking the Fight to Hitler’s U-boats (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5F351MG | 2023 | 10 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 559 MB
Author: Angus Konstam
Narrator: Philip Pope
The Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war. HG-76 sailed from Gibraltar to Britain in December 1941 and was specially targeted by the Germans. A wolfpack of U-boats was sent against it, and the Luftwaffe was heavily committed too in a rare example of German inter-service cooperation. German intelligence agents in Gibraltar and Spain also knew every detail of HG-76 before it had even sailed, seemingly stacking the odds in favour of the Kriegsmarine. Despite this the convoy fought its way through. Improved radar and sonar gave the convoy’s escorts a slight edge over their opponents, while the escort group was led by Commander Walker, an anti-submarine expert who had developed new, aggressive U-boat hunting tactics.

Free Download Germany, 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Pusch and Democracy in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKRVYP4V | 2023 | 12 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Volker Ullrich
Narrator: Christopher Douyard
From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic. The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions." He was referring to Germany in 1923, a "year of lunacy," defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation.

Free Download Monty Halls, "Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails"
English | 2017 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1509865829, 1509866019 | EPUB | 22,3 mb
‘I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains with German troops hot on his heels. These are just some of the stories told in heart-stopping detail as Monty Halls takes us along the freedom trails out of occupied Europe, from the immense French escape lines to lesser-known routes in Italy and Slovenia. Escaping Hitler features spies and traitors, extraordinary heroism from those who ran the escape routes and offered shelter to escapees, and great feats of endurance. The SAS in Operation Galia fought for forty days behind enemy lines in Italy and then, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, exfiltrated across the Apennine mountains. And in Slovenia Australian POW Ralph Churches and British Les Laws orchestrated the largest successful Allied escape of the entire war.Mixing new research, interviews with survivors and his own experience of walking the trails, Monty brings the past to life in this dramatic and gripping slice of military history.

Free Download Storming Hitler’s British Fortress: The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II by Simon Hamon, John Grehan
English | July 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1473893771 | 208 pages | MOBI | 58 Mb
In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory. Hitler was determined to hold onto what he saw as a valuable prize, and the islands were heavily fortified.

Free Download Hitler’s Artillery 1939 – 1945 (Images of War) by Hans Seidler
English | October 19, 2015 | ISBN: 1783463775 | 160 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
Hitler’s Artillery 1939 – 1945 is a highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939 – 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author’s collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.

Free Download Hitler’s Air War in Spain: The Rise of the Luftwaffe by Norman Ridley
English | June 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1399084720 | 277 pages | PDF | 3.78 Mb
Almost since the advent of warfare, civilians have suffered ‘collateral damage’, but the concept of Total War – a war without limits – only surfaced in the early part of the twentieth century. The idea of huge numbers of aircraft raining death upon defenseless cities was seen by many as not only barbaric but, in practical terms, quite unrealistic given the logistical challenges that would have to be overcome in order to put them into practice.

Free Download Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1944-1945 – Warsaw to Berlin (Images of War) by Nik Cornish
English | May 18, 2018 | ISBN: 1473862590 | 144 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish’s photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime photographs. The extent of the fighting, from the Baltic in the north to the Balkans in the south, is recorded in a selection of graphic images, as is the tenacity and desperation of the German resistance and the unstoppable force of the Red Army as offensive after offensive crushed the Third Reich. While most of the photographs show the Red Army, its troops, equipment and the conditions in which it fought, the shattered cities of Germany and eastern Europe and the suffering and destitution of the civilians are recorded in graphic detail.

Free Download David Yelton, Seán Ó’Brógáin, "Hitler’s Home Guard: Volkssturmman, Western Front, 1944 – 1945"
English | 2006 | pages: 67 | ISBN: 1846030137 | PDF | 11,5 mb
Osprey’s study of Germany’s Home Guard during the latter part of World War II (1939-1945). The creation of the German Home Guard or Volkssturm on 18 October 1944 was a desperate measure by the Nazi regime to utilize every available manpower resource in their last-ditch attempts to delay their inevitable defeat. All able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not already members of the German Armed Forces were conscripted into one organization. The aim of the Volkssturm was to shore up the defense of the Reich, but also to restrict any possible revolt or dissent by exercising military discipline over the entire male population of fighting age. This Nazi fantasy was the creation of a new force of highly-motivated Aryans dedicated to the heroic defense of their fatherland. However, the Volkssturm failed due to poor equipment, lack of training, and low morale. Men who had no experience of combat and little or no inclination to fight, and who had little interest in the Nazi regime found themselves sent into battle against impossible odds and achieving little or nothing.

Free Download Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner, Robert Whitfield, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2004 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00026WURS | M4B@64 kbps / 8 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 113 Mb
When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of 91 in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1939, but with the advent of World War II, Haffner had set it aside. His family made the decision to publish it, and the book became a best seller in Germany in 2002. Spanning the period from 1907 to 1933, it offers a unique perspective on how the average educated German grappled with the rise of Hitler, the growing influence of Nazism, and a rapidly changing society.
Haffner’s astute and compelling eyewitness accounts provide a broad overview of a country in a constant state of flux. He examines the pervasive influence of groups such as the Free Corps and the Hitler Youth movement that swept the nation. His own family’s financial struggles illustrate the disaster that befell many of Germany’s citizens during the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation devastated the country. The later peaceful but dangerously uninspiring Stresemann years contributed still further to Hitler’s rise to power. This is an invaluable chronicling of day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices.

Free Download Cheating Hitler
by Martin W Bowman;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399073257 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.89 MB
Renowned aviation historian Martin W. Bowman provides fascinating insight into how some Allied aircrew achieved the almost impossible and evaded capture.